PriusChat is the slowest site I visit

[PeteJE]

I use Firefox 3.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.5

PriusChat is by far the slowest site on all page loads. Most of the time it takes many seconds for a page draw or link. There are times when I just don't think it will load and I move on to somewhere else.

It is very frustrating when interested or participating in a thread - this is not a minor slowness - it can take 10 secs or more at times just to load from a clicked link.

[john1701a]

It must be your connection/software/hardware combination.

Both at home & work, full thread pages only take about 3 seconds to load for me.
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[Betelgeuse]

I second John's comment that it seems zippy to me. Priuschat has had its speed issues through the years, but it's been solid and fast for a while now.

(FYI, this is running Firefox on Windows XP, Linux, and MacOSX 10.5)

[patsparks]

I use IE8 and by opening each page I want to look at in tabs I breeze through PriusChat.

[ceric]

I use FireFox-64 3.0.13 (came with Fedora 10) and I see no slow-down issue.
Actually, it is faster than the IE8 I have at home.
With my slow DSL (1.3Mbps average), it takes about 4 seconds to load the entire home page.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13)
Gecko/2009080317 Fedora/3.0.13-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.13

[richard schumacher]

Do you use a router? Belkin replaced mine multiple times several months ago under warranty, and all of their recent models stall repeatedly in my setup. The older model, now unavailable, never did this (it did hang every few weeks or months requiring a reset; if I had known what I was getting into I would have kept it). There were no changes in ISP (AT&T) or OS (Mac 10.3.9).

[DetPrius]

DSL, Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP SP3 and it loads plenty quick for me.

[blippo]

I use XP and Vista on the other laptop with Firefox 2.0.0.20 and it loads fast on both laptops. Have Comcast cable

[jay_man2]

Must just be those of us with Macs. I use Safari, and this site is often slow to load. Even with Snow Leopard it still hangs sometimes.

[Betelgeuse]

Originally Posted by jay_man2

Must just be those of us with Macs. I use Safari, and this site is often slow to load. Even with Snow Leopard it still hangs sometimes.

I've had no problems with my Mac and Firefox.

A quick (slightly off-topic) question: why do folks use Safari? Is there some advantage over Firefox that I'm not aware of? Every time I've used Safari, I've run into problems, whereas I've never had those problems with Firefox.